Use Hangouts to keep in touch. Message contacts, start free video or voice calls, and hop on a conversation with one person or a group.

• Include all your contacts with group chats for up to 150 people.• Say more with status messages, photos, videos, maps, emoji, stickers, and animated GIFs.• Turn any conversation into a free group video call with up to 10 contacts.• Call any phone number in the world (and all calls to other Hangouts users are free!).• Connect your Google Voice account for phone calling, SMS texting, and voicemail integration.• Keep in touch with contacts across Android, iOS, and the web, and sync chats across all your devices.• Message contacts anytime, even if they’re offline.

Notes: Mobile carrier and ISP charges may apply. Calls to Hangouts users are free, but other calls might be charged. View our calling rates at https://www.google.com/hangouts/rates

Hangouts APK reviews

Since the update the ability to send short video clips is gone as well as the ability to send a typed message with a picture in it. I am constantly missing messages because they aren't showing in the app unless I close out of it and open it again. The same thing is happening when I send messages, it will show as if I haven't typed anything unless I close the app and open it again. Terrible update.

Chris Sheaffer

Last update terrible step back

Time stamp gone for recent messages. Randomly recently sent responses don't show until app is closed reopened. Conversations scroll weirdly away when keyboard is opened hiding what you're responding to. Etc etc.....

Austin Fathman

Used to work great...

Latest updates have killed the app. Seemingly random popups about 'chat history now being turned on', messages not showing up for minutes after being sent, app freezes and crashes, and new messages not loading. Quite a disappointment.

Clint Hemken

New update kills it, please revert back google

New look is cluttered and ugly, gifs do not auto play anymore (my favorite thing was the gifs!) And cannot send bitstrips emojis anymore because the file is too big? This update broke the app, which used to be, imo, the best messenger app available. Google please go back to what you had before! Another note, most recently messages aren't appearing both sent and received.

A Hop

Messages not showing

This latest update will stop showing what I send. I have to go out of the conversation and back in our close hangouts all together tip get it to update!

Kate Harris

What happened??

Dear Hangouts, you used to be so awesome. You let me send gifs to friends and be so easy and reliable. Now you turn my gifs into standard images *some of the time* and you make me close and open to see new messages because you decide to stop working properly. I'm not happy anymore and I will be honest, I have been using other messaging apps. None are as useful and fun as you used to be. ? Please stop sucking so bad.

Yixuan Guo

(on Nexus 9, v4.2) need improvement (incl. UI customizablity, etc)

Bugs: No landscape contacts view. No way to turn off automatic url conversion. No way to search through chat logs. (Although you can search with web-based gmail/chat.) Information density decreases when the version number increases.Drawback: (hangouts protocol) No compatibility with gtalk and other xmpp servers, (over legacy gtalk/xmpp) unsecure xmpp s2s connection. No p2p encryption, eg., OTR. Merit: Fully mirrored conversation history in all clients.

R Oleksuk

V4.0.x - either too modal, or not enough!

If you're going modal, to separate cellular SMS from Google Hangout text msg'ing, then WHY didn't you separate Google Voice integrations from Hangouts video and audio features too?! Also, need to have a video in the Play Store description showing modal switch action in left pane! That is not obvious! AND your implementation of this modal interface broke your own "Hangouts Dialer" app's access when this app is in SMS mode. Don't you test this stuff before pushing it out??? And this is on a Nexus 6 no less!

Jay Crenwelge

Newest update broke GIFs

Was working fine...and then updated and now GIFs are no longer sending properly. Patch available for that or should we just uninstall the update?

John Duffey

Voice and video dialling

An excellent (though unstable) app, marred only by the ridiculous ease with which one can accidentally start a voice or video call. For the love of all things, Google, put those options in a sub menu or something. **Hangouts 4 update** This version is worse. There are now more buttons to accidentally press, right bang next to the text input area. Also, even buggier than previous versions with frequent conversation freezes requiring you to exit and rejoin a hangout to see new messages.

Anthony Betch

Good...all I kinda don't like is...

The fact that you can touch any part of the screen and it'll bring up the options from the "+" button.... Because it kinda defeats the purpose of the button at the bottom right if anywhere on the screen opens it.... Again idk if its really a complaint.. Anyways works great.

maika daniels

GIFs

GIFs don't play in the conversation regularly like they did before the update. If I send one, it doesn't play in the convo automatically, and only sometimes will a GIF I receive play automatically. Sometimes, GIF files don't play at all, and this is all between two Hangouts users without SMS synced. The only reason I used hangouts was for this feature. Until this is fixed, I'm back with the stock messaging app.

Champ Santos

It still has dozens of issues and missing features

The missing features is somehow acceptable but the issues aren't. The app is still laggy. It sometimes need a couple of retries and force closes before finally working. There is also a bug that doesn't send or show something that you sens when the all starts being laggy what annoys me is this issues isn't present on the iOS version of the app. That works great and fast. Hoping that Google fix this issues soon.

Matt Batta

Pretty good

But the on screen notification message is too short. Make an option to make it longer or something? Occasionally, I'll receive a group message, and I'll see it in the notification area, but if I click my hangouts app icon it will not show the group message. These are not archived messages. If I add all the people that were in the group message to my own group message, I can see the old messages. Strange bug. Latest version took away ability to send video messages....why???!!!

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